After doing an emerge --depclean this morning, the emerge program no longer functions. No matter what I type, whether it be "#emerge --info", "#emerge --sync" nothing happens. There is no error message . . . nothing. The binary for emerge still exists on the system and qlist shows that portage is still installed, but apparently it was hosed somehow.

Can I fix this by downloading and unpacking a portage snapshot in the root directory as is done in the original installation of Gentoo?

EDIT: I don't think a new portage snapshot will fix the problem. I downloaded a snapshot and unpacked it in a temporary directory and realized that everything in the portage snapshot goes into /usr/portage If portage doesn't work at all, this is not going to help.

So can I download an unpack a stage 3 tarball and fix the problem. This seems like it will have a great possibility of messing up a bunch of other things. Any ideas?

Last edited by photomaskman on Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:25 pm; edited 1 time in total

And run python-updater!
Gerard._________________To install Gentoo I use sysrescuecd.Based on Gentoo,has firefox to browse Gentoo docs and mc to browse (and edit) files.
The same disk can be used for 32 and 64 bit installs.
You can follow the Handbook verbatim.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Download